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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
36 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.426.5
First chunk359 ms447 ms
TTFT359 ms447 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage2.0 GB4.8 GB
Memory %6%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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